I’ll post groups in the coming days as I get to shoot more, but I am super excited by my new delivery from SPAW! FX Crown MKII 22 in the Saber Tactical chassis.
I have owned many different rifles in the couple years I have been airgunning since coming over from rimfire. No rifle has floored me immediately, but this one did! I had to jump on it, and I’m so glad I did.
The Crown has always been on my radar since my first air gun show to look at rifles, because I prefer a rifle and definitely prefer adjustability. Saber Tactical knocked it out of the park by fixing the the one thing keeping me from the Crown... the stock. LOP adjustment, cheek riser, full length ARCA with pic rail to get that bipod way out there, and NOT wood or laminate... YES!!!!!
I am very excited about this purchase. After a quick call with Ken at SPAW to lock it in, it arrived in about a week. It is every bit as nice as I hoped. I mentioned the things about the chassis that sucked me in, but let me share a few more thoughts from my first few hours with it.
My Impacts came in hard cases and had cut outs for the rifle and accessories, but I was very happy to see that the case did not have cutouts. This makes it much more versatile.
I had to go ahead and get another Donny to put on it, because being a Saber, no other moderator would look right! I am actually surprised by how heavy that little FX by Donny moderator felt. I know it doesn’t weigh a lot, but was still heavier than I expected. And it works. There is no reason I would have to put on a larger one. It works great, small, and inexpensive... check!
The adjustability is so easy all around. The cheek and LOP have notches and locking screws which is great to keep them locked in well. It is so nice to be able to comfortably address the rifle and not have to move around. This is the reason I have sold many of the bull pups that I’ve tried. I want to adjust the rifle to me, not the other way around.
Love the large ARCA rail and pic rail at the end to get my bipod out there, and not have to use a bottle clamp. And it protects the bottle more.
I had to update: EXCELLENT decision by FX to update the scope rail to 20MOA! Huge! Thanks you for listening and continuing to update your products to the things we are looking for. This could help some people skip adjustable rings all together. I don’t know how I forgot to write this the first time... one of my favorite updates!!
The FX magazines... love them or hate them, I remember how much I really love these mags. So easy and quick to load, so many shots, and still accurate with a magazine. Also love that they aren’t $80-100 like some mags.
How does it shoot? I was only able to sight it and test some speeds out with a couple pellets before the rain came today, so I’ll be adding to this later. Ken set it up shooting the 22RDs as I requested, and is getting up to around 940 at the highest on the current setup. The settings near the top all had good groups in the 920-940 range. I’ll be interested to see how they compare with some more shots. I was hoping to be able to shoot the 18gr as well, so I was very eager to see what speeds I could shoot those on. On MIN, the 18gr were shooting right at 880, and very accurately as well. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get both those settings on this rifle for both pellets, so I am very happy to see that I can. I am also happy to see that it likes both pellets. I tried some FX and JSB both, and as usual, they were very similar in both weights, so again... winner. Being able to shoot 18 and 25 with minimal adjustment was one of the main reasons for trying the Crown, as my Red Wolf could easily do that, so I am happy to see at first glance that it looks like this is going to be easy.
I have had several rifles that were hold sensitive, and this rifle does not appear to be so far. Just what I hoped. I think the chassis probably helps with that by preventing some torquing of the stock that can happen with plastic and wood.
Oh yeah... currently set up on high, with the reg set at 150. Don’t have shot counts, because my Nitrogen tank is getting low, so I can only get up to around 220 bar right now. I was getting right at 3 mags with the 22RDs on MAX before dropping off the reg.
And it didn’t happen without pics!!
I have owned many different rifles in the couple years I have been airgunning since coming over from rimfire. No rifle has floored me immediately, but this one did! I had to jump on it, and I’m so glad I did.
The Crown has always been on my radar since my first air gun show to look at rifles, because I prefer a rifle and definitely prefer adjustability. Saber Tactical knocked it out of the park by fixing the the one thing keeping me from the Crown... the stock. LOP adjustment, cheek riser, full length ARCA with pic rail to get that bipod way out there, and NOT wood or laminate... YES!!!!!
I am very excited about this purchase. After a quick call with Ken at SPAW to lock it in, it arrived in about a week. It is every bit as nice as I hoped. I mentioned the things about the chassis that sucked me in, but let me share a few more thoughts from my first few hours with it.
My Impacts came in hard cases and had cut outs for the rifle and accessories, but I was very happy to see that the case did not have cutouts. This makes it much more versatile.
I had to go ahead and get another Donny to put on it, because being a Saber, no other moderator would look right! I am actually surprised by how heavy that little FX by Donny moderator felt. I know it doesn’t weigh a lot, but was still heavier than I expected. And it works. There is no reason I would have to put on a larger one. It works great, small, and inexpensive... check!
The adjustability is so easy all around. The cheek and LOP have notches and locking screws which is great to keep them locked in well. It is so nice to be able to comfortably address the rifle and not have to move around. This is the reason I have sold many of the bull pups that I’ve tried. I want to adjust the rifle to me, not the other way around.
Love the large ARCA rail and pic rail at the end to get my bipod out there, and not have to use a bottle clamp. And it protects the bottle more.
I had to update: EXCELLENT decision by FX to update the scope rail to 20MOA! Huge! Thanks you for listening and continuing to update your products to the things we are looking for. This could help some people skip adjustable rings all together. I don’t know how I forgot to write this the first time... one of my favorite updates!!
The FX magazines... love them or hate them, I remember how much I really love these mags. So easy and quick to load, so many shots, and still accurate with a magazine. Also love that they aren’t $80-100 like some mags.
How does it shoot? I was only able to sight it and test some speeds out with a couple pellets before the rain came today, so I’ll be adding to this later. Ken set it up shooting the 22RDs as I requested, and is getting up to around 940 at the highest on the current setup. The settings near the top all had good groups in the 920-940 range. I’ll be interested to see how they compare with some more shots. I was hoping to be able to shoot the 18gr as well, so I was very eager to see what speeds I could shoot those on. On MIN, the 18gr were shooting right at 880, and very accurately as well. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get both those settings on this rifle for both pellets, so I am very happy to see that I can. I am also happy to see that it likes both pellets. I tried some FX and JSB both, and as usual, they were very similar in both weights, so again... winner. Being able to shoot 18 and 25 with minimal adjustment was one of the main reasons for trying the Crown, as my Red Wolf could easily do that, so I am happy to see at first glance that it looks like this is going to be easy.
I have had several rifles that were hold sensitive, and this rifle does not appear to be so far. Just what I hoped. I think the chassis probably helps with that by preventing some torquing of the stock that can happen with plastic and wood.
Oh yeah... currently set up on high, with the reg set at 150. Don’t have shot counts, because my Nitrogen tank is getting low, so I can only get up to around 220 bar right now. I was getting right at 3 mags with the 22RDs on MAX before dropping off the reg.
And it didn’t happen without pics!!
